Presumably you aren’t using your hair to open doors, push shopping carts, and wipe your bottom. Moreover, unless your uncut hair has gotten so out of control that it’s dragging the floor, your hair is probably not being exposed to large amounts of the virus. That can leave your scalp more susceptible to bacteria and fungal infections and injury. Plus, washing your hair too often can actually damage your scalp’s natural defense mechanisms, including the oils and friendly bacteria that normally cover your scalp. Washing your hair a dozen or more times a day would be quite impractical.
Does this then mean that you should be washing your hair as often as you are washing your hands?Ĭertainly not. There is the possibility that the virus could remain viable on your hair for a few hours or even a few days. So it’s not clear how long the virus may be able to survive on that growing and increasingly unruly mound of stuff on your head. It did return a case report about an unfortunate cat with ruffled hair, though. Well, searching PubMed “coronavirus” and “hair” revealed no real studies of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) and the human hair.
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